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CIRILO F. BAUTISTA: A Glimpse (An homage to a National Artist for Literature, 2014) by Radney Ranario

What to make of him, I do not know really. Maybe, he is all that I do not think and none that I do....
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Remembering Cirilo by Krip Yuson

I can’t recall exactly when and where I first met Cirilo, but it must have been in the late 1970s, likely at a Palanca...
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Reaction to the Festschrift ‘Cirilo F. Bautisa: A Lyric Sense of History’ by Marne Kilates

Delivered at De La Salle University, 20 March 2006 I have to give thanks to Dr. Marjorie Evasco, Marj to us who consider ourselves her...
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Splendor in the grass: The Poet as Fire by Joel Pablo Salud

  My first sweet whiff of poet Cirilo F. Bautista’s works hardly included his poetry. It was his prose, penned in the weekly Panorama that...
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TRIBUTE: Cirilo F. Bautista, 76, National Artist for Literature

Poet, fictionist, essayist and National Artist for Literature Cirilo F. Bautista has passed away after a long battle with muscular dystrophy. Cirilo was 76,...
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Ports of Call by Edgardo B. Maranan

Pacific Northwest   Those who named the rivers—they live in the heart of kin, or what remains of nations calling these forests home   We motor...
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Edgardo B. Maranan, poet, storyteller by Alma Anonas-Carpio

He won the most number of Palanca Awards—35—and was elevated to the awards’ Hall of Fame in 2000. Some 15 of his 35 Palanca...
Editor’s Corner

The World Needs Poets by Joel Pablo Salud

On the morning of May 6, 2018, after a riveting night at Wordello 2.0 at Casa Real in Taguig, I woke up to a...
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You better work by Marie Yuvienco

An uncanny feeling of déjà vu pervades Executive Order No. 51 signed by Rodrigo Duterte this past Labor Day.  It says nothing new, its...
Analysis

Are we on the right track for the future?

It was a much anticipated gathering. Close to 700 delegates converged in Manila to hear some of the world’s leading lights share their thoughts...
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LOOKING BACK AT THE FUTURE OF PHILIPPINE WRITING

Written by National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera. First published in Philippine Graphic, January 1968. ONLY the very naive or the very cynical would try to predict the future course of Philippine literature. There are only the weekly magazines or the occasional books as signposts to indicate trends,...

Where the summer sun lingers

Boatmen in Coron, Palawan celebrated International Workers’ Day on May 1 while guiding tourists around the Calamianes island group. They work closely with the municipal government and local tourism office to sustain income opportunities until the months leading to the rainy season. — Photo and caption by...

FEU’s TAM DokyuFest 2026 celebrates student documentaries and social truths

The Far Eastern University (FEU) Department of Communication recently concluded TAM DokyuFest 2026 with the announcement of the festival winners. Guided by the theme “Visions for a Shared Humanity,” this year’s festival featured 19 official finalist documentaries produced by third-year Communication students. Rather than mere class projects, these student...

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